At one time there were more than 100,000 elephants in Thailand, mainly working in the timber business. In 1989, the worst flooding in the Thai history caused the death of thousands of people. The flood was a direct result of excessive timber harvesting. To protect the rapidly diminishing forests, the Thai government outlawed timbering. This left over thousands of domesticated working elephants with no means of supporting themselves.
Today there are only about 5,000 elephants mostly working in
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Admit it. It is tough to visualize an elephant orphanage. Visions of elephants in shorts like Oliver Twist asking “please sir may I have another” were short lived in my great expectations, however they were not replaced with anything very clear.
Originally set up by the government to care for abandoned or orphaned elephants it has now turned into a major tourist attraction and seems to be the economic cornerstone of a small village outside of Kandy named Pinnewala.
It has its critics. The critics
The top officials of Uttrakhand forest department sifted the dread tusked elephant loose near the city of Rishikesh to Rajaji National Park. For around two months, there was terror of the tusker in Rishikesh and it had killed many people. In the presence of top executives of forest department the tusker was leaved in the chila range of Rajaji National Park.
Said that the forest officials were planned to leave the Tuskar in Corbett National Park early but suddenly the programe was changed and the
Kaziranga National Park is A national park in the Golaghat and Nagaon district of the state of Assam, India. This national park is mainly famous for single horn Rhinoceros. On 1 June 1905, the Kaziranga Proposed Reserve Forest was created with an area of 232 km2. If we fail to see the Rhinoceros any where than we can move towards the Kaziranga national park and see them. It is a natural home of it and really they feel it due to large area i.e. covered by forest including river and three types of
Chiang Mai, Thailand, is known for its elephants, tigers, resorts, parasols, temples, hill tribes and mountains.
So what's in it for Levelers? All of the above and more.
Old city gates
Start with Chiang Mai which means "new city" despite its being 700 years old. Once capital of the Lanna ("a million rice fields") Kingdom and center of Buddhism in northern Thailand it is now the country's second largest. For many years it was accessible only by river or elephant. A railway line wasn't finished un
